Antonio Monforte

Antonio Monforte guitarist, composer, modern guitarist and famous songwriter involved in musical projects in Sicilian dialect. His musical activity started in the early eighties by undertaking modern guitar studies with master Mimmo Sferro and jazz guitar with master Claudio Cusmano. In the late 1990s, he collaborated as a guitarist at the studios of "Sea Music" and "MF Recording" in Milan, performing with artists of the likes of Gianni Bella and Passangers, to found the Children of a Child, With whom he collects thousands of concerts and arrives to produce three albums. In 2004 he started collaborating with director Giacomo Maimone writing the song "Sugnu pazzu", short film soundtrack "Desiderio in amore" (Prize winner "Peppone D'oro" at the Brescello festival 2005) and finalist at the Massimo Troisi prize. In the summer of 2008, he won the Rosa Balistreri prize, a third exhibition organized by the San Giovanni La Punta (CT) culture consultant. In 2009 she participates in the festival of the new Sicilian song by Salvo La Rosa and in 2010 she won the Linguarock Festival and the Telethon Music Festival. In the same year he participated for the second consecutive year at the eleventh festival of the new Sicilian song with the song "Vota Babbacallo" contained in the so called "Semu Siciliani". In 2013, Monforte received the Ara Jupiter Award. After the album "Semu Siciliani" and a whole year spent between the recording room and the studio studio, Antonio Monforte returns to the scenes with "U Santu", the first single from the new album "Black Fire" coming out in June of 2014. The single "U santu" is presented by a video clip, made by director Francesco Lo Bianco, winner of the "Ciak Sicilia" film prize and recipient of a special mention at the "Fano Film Festival". To this, they follow another two singles from the album Fire Black "And never pass" and "A zita" accompanied by the respective video clips made by director Bruno Delpopolo. The "Black Fire" album comes out in conjunction with the same story written by the same songwriter for Algra Editore, making his debut as a writer.